Our people outside of prison used my name to mobilize the community locally and internationally. But for me to be treated separately from my colleagues, who had contributed as much as and even more than I had, would have been a betrayal of them.

Give a child love, laughter and peace, not AIDS.

Resentment is like a glass of poison that a man drinks; then he sits down and waits for his enemy to die.

A real leader uses every issue, no matter how serious and sensitive, to ensure that at the end of the debate we should emerge stronger and more united than ever before.

Overcoming poverty is not a gesture of charity. It is an act of justice.

I have never cared very much for personal prizes. A person does not become a freedom fighter in the hope of winning awards.

Our differences are our strength as a species and as a world community.